Tonight was a top night out for me! I took my new 10th scale radio control touring car to Newbury to see how it goes on the carpet. After a rather shaky start with the back end sliding out all-over-the-place I was cooking on gas! For my first time out it was from the top draw.
Finishing 1st in the first qualifier after some frantic setup changes to help rectify my tail happy TC, which was as much of a shock to me as it was to the others Continue reading
Upon receiving my copy of the Magento Beginners Guide I took a moment after dinner whilst my girlfriend watched some ‘Celebrity Increase My Profile’ program to absorb the first chapter. I was presented with a nice introduction explaining the scope of the book and the conventions that are used throughout. A nice and easy ‘in’ perfectly suited to reading on the couch. Continue reading
As I was gutted to miss FOWD in 2008, I decided to make a point of not missing it this year. So I put my name down on the ‘early bird’ list along with @robking too as I was sure he’d be up for it.
Really looking forward to Brett Welch talk about marketing for start-ups and Mark Boulton on design and frontend goodness. I’ve seen Drew McLellan and Elliot Jay Stocks before at Oxford Geek Nights and thought Continue reading
Over the last few months it’s become apparent that I enjoy doing a wide variety of different things. This is not new news to me, it’s just that I’ve come to the conclusion that this is what I should be doing – a bit of everything -.
Variety is the spice of life, or so I’ve been told. After building the fencing with my neighbour, the spring weather finally arriving, continuing to develop my ecommerce shop Bytemart, my decision to start Continue reading
Having received an email from the Magento Team the other week bigging-up the latest release of Magento and encouraging me to upgrade as soon as I could, I dutifully upgraded the Mage_Core_Modules to 1.3.0. This appeared to go without a hitch and after I made a couple of adjustments in the admin and tested Continue reading